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As announced in this document, it's no longer possible to disable related (YouTube) videos in iframe embeds using the rel parameter. This means that we can no longer use it to prevent suggested videos from appearing after an embedded video has come to an end. So what can we do if we don't want them? Read this.

I was inspired by a recent forum thread, to write a click counter that can count clicks/hits to any HTML element (links, buttons, images, etc.). Multiple counts are saved to one text file (no database needed) using PHP, while AJAX displays the increasing numbers in real time. No page refresh required!

It's very light-weight because no dependencies or large JavaScript libraries are used - it's all plain JS.

Responsive web design (done well) allows users to achieve their goals on any internet accessible device, but what if they *want* to view the fixed width desktop version of a website, even on mobile?

This post comes at a time when responsive web design interest is piquing - certainly here on DD - probably the result of those emails we've been receiving via Google Webmaster Tools, that basically tell us how "X % of your web pages do not provide an optimal mobile experience... your
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Here is a simple PHP script to change stylesheets or load in alternative content (conditional loading), with cookies to store user selection.

The nice thing about a PHP-based solution over JavaScript content/CSS switchers, is that all the checking and switching is done on the server side, before the web page even finds it's way to the browser, so you don't get any flash of unstyled content. Plus, you can conditionally load HTML or external files (improve performance and save on load
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